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162. Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

D : wrong place of modifier "In the illustrations".Basically there are two modifiers.1. Illustrations - which are carefully coordinated with her narratives by Beatrix2. Beatrix potter, who capitalized on her...and (also coordinated illustrations)

You might think about mixing it. Like Beatrix coordinated illustrations and also capitalized it but its wrong.

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Verb parallelism(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations Modifies Beatrix Potter(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and --- Pronoun reference/ comma should be preceded by "and".No reference to "Them" if in her book illustrations is removed.

Re: Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, [#permalink]
31 May 2011, 05:42

gmatspider wrote:

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Verb parallelism(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations Modifies Beatrix Potter(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and --- Pronoun reference/ comma should be preceded by "and".No reference to "Them" if in her book illustrations is removed.

Correct answer is C

This is good explanation than that of official guide. _________________

[quote="sagarsabnis"]162. Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,them is ambiguous here(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter improper modifier carefully coordinating...........(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter Correct(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations mispalced modifier(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives andin her book illustrations is an essential modifier

162. Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

As per OG in A & B How "carefully coordinating illogically modifies illustrations" ?to modify illustration it should be followed by without a comma.

In this sentence, since there is no clause preceding the verb -ing modifier, the phrase 'carefully coordinating them with her narratives' is modifying the prepositional phrase 'in her book illustrations'. Hence, the modification is illogical.

162. Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

C) the inessential clause creates no problem, actually it's even using past participle which is in accordance to "capitalized", and all other options have a bunch of errors. So C is correct.

In option B, there are two modifiers following each other and they both modify Beatrix Potter and this can be confusing and so it is better to avoid such a strcuture.

In the right answer choice "C", "which she carefully coordinated with her narratives" modifies "In her book illustrations" and "in her book illustrations" modifies "Beatrix Potter" and so structure is much clearer. _________________

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Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

Meaning: BP capitalized on her keen observation and love of natural world in her book illustrations by carefully coordinating illustrations with her narratives.

POE:In Option A) BP is far away from modifier “carefully coordinating them with her narratives”.

Option B) “In her book illustrations” tells us where the BP capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world. But “them” is not clearly specified.

Option D) what is coordinated with her narratives is not mentioned. The sentence sounds as if BP is coordinated with her narratives.

Option E) The cause and effect is removed by making it as a list.

I am not able to differentiate Option B) with Option C) _________________

A The participial phrase does not clearlymodify the noun in the preceding phrase;use of the present progressive form of theverb confuses the sequence of time withrespect to the past tense of the main verbcapitalized._________________

In this sentence, since there is no clause preceding the verb -ing modifier, the phrase 'carefully coordinating them with her narratives' is modifying the prepositional phrase 'in her book illustrations'. Hence, the modification is illogical.

I hope this helps to clarify your doubt!

Regards,Meghna

Hi Meghna,

Can the verb -ing modifier - 'carefully coordinating them with her narratives' modify the clause that follows it - 'Beatrix Potter capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world'

162. Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

Here is my 2 cents on this topic.(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, >> This is wrong because this ,+verbing modifier modifies then entire clause not just the preceding noun, there is no clause preceding this modifier.(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter >>> Same as above.(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter >>> This is correct (D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations >>> Illogical modification.(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and >> Illogical modification.